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Or you could just use the libsixel package. Downloading libraries isn't unknown to developers (thinking about `apt-get install libncurses5-dev libsixel-dev` or the like.) Or sysadmins: `apt-get install libncurses5` or `apt-get install libsixel`.



&& find out how to get it on OSes that aren't debian-based

&& find a decent FFI wrapper if my app isn't in C-land

&& read the docs

&& static link hassles so I don't have to sort-out dynamic-link hassles for every platform

|| round-up a collection of dynamic libsixel libs & figure out how to bundle them with my script if I'm not using a compile-to-machine-code language

vs

   b64 := base64.Encode(myImg)
   fmt.Printf("\x1b]1337;inline=1;size=%d:%s\n", len(b64), b64)
If it's a feature request where I'm really only handling it to shut a few people up, which route am I going to take?




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